Toner, developing agent, toner accommodating unit, image forming apparatus, image forming method, method of producing printed material, and method of manufacturing toner

Abstract

A toner contains toner particles that contains a polyester resin, an aromatic petroleum resin, and a release agent, wherein cross sections of the toner particles observed with a scanning electron microscope have domains of the release agent that satisfy the following requirements (i) and (ii): (i) the average number of the domains present per toner particle is 2 to 8; and (ii) each of the domains has a long diameter of at least 400 nm and an aspect ratio of at most 0.7 as calculated by Formula 1: Aspect ratio=(short diameter of domain)/(long diameter of domain)  Formula 1.

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